The word "slope" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a surface that has an incline, or as a verb to refer to the act of going up or down a sloped surface. For example: "I hiked up the steep slope of the mountain."
While some may say the changes in England have so far only been at the margins, it is the risk of a slippery slope that should cause concern.
He may have denied using the N-word but he also called an Asian man a "slope" and has called the Romanians "gypsies" and the Scots "tramps".
"The nets out the back are no different to any other nets but then you come out in the middle and you have to react to the slope.
Much of it was a "slippery slope" argument: if the Gates Foundation divested from every firm which failed social responsibility tests, soon there'd be almost nothing left to invest in.
Similarly, the slope of the cosine curve at any point is negatively proportional to the sine.
The slope of the sine curve at any point (which is to say the rate of change of x with respect to θ) is in fact equal to the height of cosine at that point, if the angle is measured in radians - this is one of the reasons mathematicians like radians.
Leaning forward to stay perpendicular to the slope, hitting the track mid-foot and trusting my luck on stray rocks, I really cut loose for the first time all week.
As a man walked across the bridge Clarkson made a comment that there was a "slope on it".
At Kendal - a more conventional hostel, albeit one in a lush Georgian townhouse with narey a floor that didn't slope at some endearingly drunken angle - we had our own room and were given a hearty breakfast the next morning.
He cites ancient China's premier historian, Sima Qian, who recorded a remarkable building programme pursued by China's first ruling dynasty, the Qin: "Whenever Qin conquered one of its rivals, it would commission replicas of its palaces and halls and reconstruct them on the slope north of the capital.
All this has been written – proving only that gay marriage is indeed a slippery slope for the sanity of its opponents.
